4-7 June 2012, Tirana : European NPM Project Inter-NPM Onsite Exchange of Experiences : joint visit by representatives of the Slovenian NPM, the NPM of "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and the NPM of Albania

25 April 2012, Strasbourg : Methodology for visits by members of national parliaments to places of detention of irregular migrants and asylum seekers in Europe”

12-15 February 2012, Skopje : European NPM Project Inter-NPM Onsite Exchange of Experiences : joint visit by representatives of the Albanian, Slovenian NPMs and NPM of "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"

14-15 December 2011, Warsaw, : Workshop for the attention of NPM medical experts, organised with the help of the IMAP (European NPM Project)

17 November 2011, Strasbourg : Final meeting of the Russian PMC Pre Project Supervisory Board and Working Group

3 November 2011, Moscow : Joint meeting of the Supervisory Board and the Working Group to wrap up the Russian PMC Pre Project

24-27 October 2011, Yerevan: On-site exchange of experiences between the NPM of Armenia, the SPT and the CPT (European NPM Project)

20-21 October 2011, Baku: NPM Workshop on “The protection of persons belonging to particularly vulnerable groups in places of deprivation of liberty”, hosted by and co-organised with the NPM of Azerbaijan (European NPM Project)

2-5 October 2011, Ljubljana: “Inter-NPM On-site exchange of experiences" between the NPM of Albania, "The former Republic Yugoslav of Macedonia" and Slovenia

28-29 September 2011, Sarajevo: NHRS Workshop on “The role for NHRSs in the protection against and prevention of all forms of discrimination”, hosted by and co-organised with the Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Peer-to-Peer II Project)

26-30 September 2011, Tbilisi: Training on Monitoring of child care institutions, co-organised with the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia

23 September 2011, Paris: Conference to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the European Social Charter, hosted by and co-organised with the Conseil économique, social et écologique of France

21-22 September 2011, Madrid: Round Table with the National Human Rights Structures of Council of Europe member states on follow-up to be given to the Interlaken Action Plan and the Izmir Declaration, co-organised with and hosted by the Spanish Ombudsman (funded by Council of Europe and Spanish Ombudsman)

18-22 July 2011, Tbilisi: Training on Property rights, co-organised with the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia

12 July 2011, London : Inter-NPM thematic meeting on “Monitoring Deportation Flights”, between the NPMs of France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, hosted and organised by the NPM of the UK (European NPM Project)

27 June-1 July 2011, Tirana: On-site exchange of experiences between the NPM of Albania, the SPT and the CPT (European NPM Project)

27-28 June 2011, Tbilisi: Training on Healthcare issues during the monitoring of closed institutions, co-organised with the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia

15-16 June 2011, Tallinn: NPM Workshop on “How to collect and double-check information relating to (the risk of) ill-treatment in places of deprivation of liberty?”, hosted by and co-organised with the NPM of Estonia (European NPM Project)

15-16 June 2011, Strasbourg: Colloquium on the Comparison between the case-law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the European Court of Human Rights on asylum, co-organised with the UNHCR

14 June 2011, Tallinn: IMAP presentation to NPMs, hosted by and co-organised with the NPM of Estonia (European NPM Project)

9-10 June 2011, Strasbourg: Training on Media Skills for the management and the staff-members of the Office of the Public Defender's of Georgia

7 June 2011, Tbilisi: Awareness raising Activity on child’s rights, co-organised with the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia

24-25 May 2011, Kyiv: NHRS Workshop on “How can NHRSs contribute to securing the effective enjoyments of their rights by persons with disabilities ?”, hosted by and co-organised with the Ombudsman of Ukraine (Peer-to-Peer II Project)

13 May 2011, Moscow: Joint meeting of the Supervisory Board and the Working Group to kick off the Russian PMC Pre Project

6 May 2011, Tbilisi: Workshop on Child’s rights, hosted and co-organised with the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia

6-31 May 2011, Tbilisi: Awareness raising Activity in Child’s rights, co-organised with the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia

5-6 May 2011, Athens: Consultation meeting with certain NHRSs on the Council of Europe’s activities in the field of migration, hosted by and co-organised with the Ombudsman of Greece

6-7 April 2011, Tallinn: NHRS Workshop on “Promotion and protection of children’s rights by NHRSs”, hosted by and co-organised with the Chancellor of Justice of Estonia (Peer-to-Peer II Project)

16 March 2011, Strasbourg: Russian and Council of Europe project teams meet to prepare co-operation project to support effective public monitoring of places of detention in the Russian Federation (PMC Pre-Project)

14-15 March 2011, Paris: NPM Workshop on “Security and dignity in settings of deprivation of liberty”, hosted by and co-organised with the French General Inspector of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (European NPM Project)

10 December 2010, Baku: Seminar on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the ECHR, hosted by and co-organised with the Ombudsman of Azerbaijan

IMAP: Independent Medical Advisory Panel (set up under the European NPM Project)

NHRS: National Human Rights Structure (can be used as generic term for independent bodies that includes also NPMs, or as specific term that designates only ombudsmen and national human rights commissions or institutions with a general - as opposed to thematic – and nation wide human rights mandate)

NHRS Unit: National Human Rights Structures Unit (of the National Human Rights Structures Prisons and Police Division, Legal and Human Rights Capacity Building Department, Directorate of Co-operation, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe)

NPM: National Preventive Mechanism against torture (set up under the OPCAT)

OPCAT: Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention Against Torture

PMC: Public Monitoring Committee (established for the purpose of detention monitoring in the Russian Federation)

RSIF: Regular Selective Information Flow (composed of monthly bulletins in English by which the NHRS Unit informs every forthnight of findings and activities by CoE bodies that could be Of relevance for the national and international work of NHRSs. Translations into Russian have started recently.)

The protection and promotion by national human rights structures of the right to good administration / Judging the performance of national human rights structures and deciding on the means made available to them: How preserve the respect of their independence? 2-3 July 2008. St. Petersburg

The promotion and protection by national human rights structures of the exercise of freedom of expression. 22-23 October 2008. Padua

The role of national human rights structures in the defence of human rights defenders. 19-20 November 2008. Strasbourg